1: The short one may be drawn (5)
2: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)
3: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)
4: Aspiring group losing right to drink fizzy gin (5,2)
5: Learner said it was a huge green monster cooked in gravy. (7)
6: Sounds like a bright child (3).
7: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)
8: Father and mother's embracing Nora in pictures (9)
12: Fought and bled after receiving a little attention (7)
14: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)
15: Yeller eats two steak bones as Elly May's pet (7)
16: Assault on SandL comes to nothing (9)
19: Remain distraught about initially rowdy sailor (7)
20: Speculated that it was a talkative visitor (7)
23: Comic embraces date at end of Fourth Dimension (5)
25: Venomous enemy lurks in Caspians (3)
26: One politician's a brat (3)
28: Mink, for one, may fly when theres trouble (3)